AVIATION FATALITY.
ITALIAN MAJOR DROWNED. DI PINEDO SLIGHTLY HURT. A. and N.Z. ROME. July 20. While the noted Italian airman, Colonel di Pinedo, was alighting from a hydroplane at Pisa, after a test flight in the machine in which he had intended to make a world flight, a huge wave capsized it. Major Conti was drowned and di Pinedo was slightly injured. The machine was completely wrecked.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 9
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